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Desire, hypocrisy, and ambition in Academe: Joyce Carol Oate's Hungry ghosts Stanley Trachtenberg -- Academia and the wasteland: Bernard Malamud's A new life and his views of the university / James M. Mellard -- The gnomes of academe: Philip Roth and the university / Eric Solomon -- John Barth, the university, and the absurd: a study of The end of the road and Giles goat-bo Elaine Safer -- Joseph Heller and the academy / James Nagel -- Saul Bellow a the university as villain / Ben Siegel -- Makingthe best of two worlds: Raym Federman, Beckett, and the university / Melvin J. Friedman -- A personal vie poetry, pedagogy, and per-versities / Theodore Weiss -- A personal view: the academy and the "you know?" generation / James Ragan -- A personalview: the "real life" fallacy / David Madden.

The American Writer and the University

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 01/01/1989
      ISBN13: 9780874133363, 978-0874133363
      ISBN10: 087413336X

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      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Desire, hypocrisy, and ambition in Academe: Joyce Carol Oate's Hungry ghosts Stanley Trachtenberg -- Academia and the wasteland: Bernard Malamud's A new life and his views of the university / James M. Mellard -- The gnomes of academe: Philip Roth and the university / Eric Solomon -- John Barth, the university, and the absurd: a study of The end of the road and Giles goat-bo Elaine Safer -- Joseph Heller and the academy / James Nagel -- Saul Bellow a the university as villain / Ben Siegel -- Makingthe best of two worlds: Raym Federman, Beckett, and the university / Melvin J. Friedman -- A personal vie poetry, pedagogy, and per-versities / Theodore Weiss -- A personal view: the academy and the "you know?" generation / James Ragan -- A personalview: the "real life" fallacy / David Madden.

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